Friday, April 9, 2010

H is for Happy Vest

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this A to Z Blogging thing...

Happy Vest

Also known as a straight jacket... I'm sure at times as a writer you feel a little crazy, all your characters talking to you at once telling you what to do. Our fellow writers all understand but our everday families and friends don't always understand where we are coming from. I think we should all just rememeber that even though we live in our alternate universe that we don't need the Straight Jacket... Lets go with the Happy Vest instead... if we've got the ideas and eventually will make a dollar or two on something we love then why not do it?! Who cares if we are wearing Happy Vests or not?

My actual words - Happiness & Heart

Two things that are needed while writing being happy and having a ton of heart! No one else can tell you to have that one idea or to continue to write, only you can. You have to want it that's where the heart comes in, you have to have a ton of heart to be able to sit at your desk alone and quiet and put that pen to paper or type on that laptop you so desperately wanted. After your finished you'll realize that happiness is at the end of the road!!

Do you need a Happy Vest today? What bring you happiness? Is your heart in writing, art, photography or anything else?

Just for all of you here is a picture of Trevor and I having fun in Los Angeles!!

Morning Jen, thanks for sharing about the Happy Vest, what a fun euphemism!

As far as your real words I'm not sure that happiness is required to write but heart most certainly is (at least for me). Happiness probably comes in handy though when deciding whether or not to stick with it.

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Happy Vest sounds so much better than straight jacket! Next time The Kiddo catches me talking out loud while I write, and she is looking at me like I'm a looney-tunes, I'll think, "Happy Vest," and not "Straight jacket!"